Devotions from Henri Nouwen’s book, The Inner Voice of Love Today’s devotional is on acknowledging our powerlessness. We all have those places in our lives that we are powerless. We cannot heal ourselves and every time we try we get discouraged. But we have to start simply by admitting that we can’t cure ourselves in…

Devotions by Henri Nouwen , The Inner Voice of Love Today’s devotion is on how to live through pain we may have in our lives.  It could be the pain of not receiving what we need most, a place of emptiness where we feel the absence of love, etc. It is hard back to go…

Devotions from Henri Nouwen’s book, The Inner Voice of Love To live a disciplined life is to live in such a way that we only want to be where God is with us. The more deeply we live our spiritual life, the easier it will be to discern the difference between living with God and…

Devotions from Henri Nouwen’s book, The Inner Voice of Love Henri speaks of entering the new country where the Lord dwells there in greater intimacy. It’s like we reach a point in our lives where we are not truly at peace in our old country any more.  He struggled, just as we do, when we…

Devotions from Henri Nouwen, The Inner Voice of Love God’s love is permanent and we can claim that love as a gift from Him and also give that love to others. When others stop loving us, we don’t have to stop loving them. Maybe on a human level, changes might be necessary, but on the…

Devotions from Henri Nouwen’s book, The Inner Voice of Love Henri talks about setting boundaries to our love. When people show us their boundaries by saying they can’t do something for us, we may feel rejected.  We would rather they showed us  love, care, and giving without limit. But we also can’t keep giving to…

Devotions from Henri Nouwen’s book, The Inner Voice of Love There are many times we don’t “feel” God’s love and may instead feel very empty as Henri did. We may try to find our fulfillment in the world with pleasures, distractions, fantasies etc. but this only causes us to leave the true ROCK of our…

Devotions from Henri Nouwen’s book, The Inner Voice of Love We need to be attentive to the inner voice so we can experience new life in freedom and joy.  We must stop seeing ourselves through the eyes of others whom we try desperately to please.  They can not give us our identity and we must…

Devotions from Henri Nouwen’s book The Voice of Love Devotions these next days will be taken from Henri’s book written in the darkest time of his life when he lost his self-esteem, his energy to live and work, his sense of being loved, and even his hope in God. He came face to face with…

Devotions taken from Ruth Haley Barton In our lives we all need to take time  for what is most important. As I read an e-mail from Ruth Barton it was a good reminder.  “It you attempt to act and do for others or for the world without deepening your own self-understanding, freedom, integrity and capacity…